halloween chills are in the air....i know what i want to be finally for halloween...a head shrinker....and by that i don't mean a psychiatrist or a bitchy girlfriend.
i was reading about the Shuar tribe in ecuador who would take the heads of their victims by killing them with a poisoned dart and shrink them down to the size of a man's fist.
the shrinking process is quite amazing- The process of preparing a tsantsa [shrunken head] has a number of steps. With the aid of a machete or a steel knife, the victim's skin is peeled back from the uppermost part of his chest, shoulders and back, and the head and neck are cut off as close as possible to the collarbone... here he makes a slit up the rear of the head and carefully cuts the skin from the skull and throws the skull into the river as a gift to the anaconda. The skin is boiled for half and hour. It is then dried. Then the skin is again scraped... the slit in the rear is sewn... Heated stones or sand then is rolled around in the head... Three pins are put through the lips and lashed with string. The skin is rubbed daily with charcoal so it will become blackened...The tsantsa is then hung from the killer's neck at the feast of celebrating victories.
These peeps are right up my alley for a halloween costume
(I WANT YOUR HEAD!)
any volunteers to make my costume "authentic" please contact me and prepare to LOSE YOUR HEAD!!!!AHHHHHHHHH! otherwise i'll be going to the toy store- Later folks, hope you all have bad dreams tonight! MMWAHAHAHAHAHA!
i was reading about the Shuar tribe in ecuador who would take the heads of their victims by killing them with a poisoned dart and shrink them down to the size of a man's fist.
the shrinking process is quite amazing- The process of preparing a tsantsa [shrunken head] has a number of steps. With the aid of a machete or a steel knife, the victim's skin is peeled back from the uppermost part of his chest, shoulders and back, and the head and neck are cut off as close as possible to the collarbone... here he makes a slit up the rear of the head and carefully cuts the skin from the skull and throws the skull into the river as a gift to the anaconda. The skin is boiled for half and hour. It is then dried. Then the skin is again scraped... the slit in the rear is sewn... Heated stones or sand then is rolled around in the head... Three pins are put through the lips and lashed with string. The skin is rubbed daily with charcoal so it will become blackened...The tsantsa is then hung from the killer's neck at the feast of celebrating victories.
These peeps are right up my alley for a halloween costume
(I WANT YOUR HEAD!)
any volunteers to make my costume "authentic" please contact me and prepare to LOSE YOUR HEAD!!!!AHHHHHHHHH! otherwise i'll be going to the toy store- Later folks, hope you all have bad dreams tonight! MMWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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thank you so much for the cds....
i just got home and they were waiting for me........yay!
i promise you that this weekend i will give them my undivided attention and i'll let you know what i think at the beginning of next week.
can't wait to hear them
when i have time next week, i shall pop a mix cd in the post for you.....
take care